Re: can a hard disk in removable cradle be hot-swapped?

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From: bah
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:00

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In aus.computers.ibm-pc Ross <reply.to@NG.please> wrote:
: I've just installed removable hard disk cradles so I can put a
: removable (second) hard disk in each PC.   So far, I've been turning
: the PC off for safety before pulling out the hard disc cradle.
: However, it would be a lot more convenient if I could treat it like a
: floppy - ie, so long as the drive is not actually writing to disk at
: the time, can you pull the disk out while the PC and Windows are still
: powered up?

: Is this OK?   Won't hurt the hard disk, I hope?

hurt? trash more like it heh

neither ide nor most scsi is hot swappable as is, as the other poster pointed out no software support for it either in
doze,

its what you would call a really really bad idea

bah

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